The sporting director of Venezia, Filippo Antonelliin his press conference today, also spoke about the defensive difficulties revealed by the team at the start of the season and the lack of investment in that area of the pitch in the summer transfer market: “Four players, Idzes, Sverko, Altare and Svoboda seem young, but they are at the height of their strength. The evaluations are both economic and on the number of defenders available. I preferred to invest where we had no players. As with Nicolussi, Duncan and Doumbia, we lacked quality players. Behind, renovated Svoboda, we were numerically 4. Schingtienne was a young player to grow. I don’t believe in the free agent market: if a player is released, there is a reason.”
The attack: was there the Gytkjaer situation, was he the one who wanted to stay?
“It was an end-of-market assessment from Sassuolo that was pushing, he was important for us and didn’t agree to go.”
About renewals? Do you talk about it with Zampano? And with Busio, you said that after the annual renewal you would talk about it again.
“We talk about it with Zampano, he cares about the fate of Venezia, I don’t think there are any problems. Busio? We made a one-year renewal, he cares about the cause, we think he can give a lot to Venezia and we understood the boy’s human values , so there are no problems.”